End of 1Q 2016 EatFeats MLE ranking

April 2, 2016 at 10:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are the MLE rankings at the end of the 1st quarter of 2016. (Ranking system description). Despite being undefeated for over a year, Matt Stonie has won less money than Joey Chestnut over the past 12 months

win % Prize $ HDB $HDB %$HDB
1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie 100 1 $33750 2 62 1 1.5 1.25 1
2 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut 96.1 2 $48050 1 60 2 1.5 1.75 2
3 Miki Sudo 81.2 4 $30100 3 38 3 3 3.5 3
4 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan 77.7 5 $13300 4 33 6.5T 5.25 5.125 4
5 Tim “Eater X” Janus 88 3 $3150 11 36 4 7.5 5.25 5
6 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas 68.2 8 $7450 6 34 5 5.5 6.75 6
7 Geoffrey Esper 75.8 6 $3800 9 30.5 8 8.5 7.25 7
8 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco 74 7 $9850 5 27.25 13 9 8 8
9 Yasir Salem 63.5 9 $5150 7 30 9.5T 8.25 8.625 9
10 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez 58.9 10 $2800 14 28 11 12.5 11.25 10

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King of the Wings will hold a wing eating contest in Warren, OH tomorrow awarding $250 to the winner.

April 1, 2016 at 11:07 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Cleveland, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

The new issue of People magazine has an article about "Furious" Pete Czerwinski's battle vs. cancer.

April 1, 2016 at 10:16 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:"Furious" Pete Czerwinski, Health | Permalink * Comments

The "Food Challenge Bros" won the first prize of $5000 in the finals of the Brutus Burger Challenge at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa last night. update Tulsa World has an article about the event giving the name of the winner as Robert McKinney.

April 1, 2016 at 9:04 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Prizes, Tulsa, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (3)

While in Montreal to play an exhibition game, Jose Bautista of the Toronto Blue Jays offered his teammate Chris Colabello $15000 if he could finish eight pounds of lobster macaroni and cheese. The bonus was not paid out. (via TheScore.com

April 1, 2016 at 8:54 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes, Pasta Eating Challenges, Prizes, Toronto | Permalink * Comments

The fitness forum on the 4chan message board has a thread about competitive eating.

March 31, 2016 at 4:18 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Male Athletes | Permalink * Comments

Registration is now open for the Dell’Osso Family Farm Baconfest World Bacon Eating Championship in Lathrop, CA June 19.

March 31, 2016 at 4:11 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Stockton | Permalink * Comments

US Fries will hold a poutine eating contest on Sunday in Tucson, AZ awarding $1000 in US Fries gift cards ($500 to winner). Qualifiers will be held on Friday and Saturday.

March 31, 2016 at 10:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, Tucson, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

Tulsa World and Claremore Progress have interviews with Cheers co-starts George Wendt "Norm" and John Ratzenberger "Cliff" about hosting tommorow's finals of the Brutus Burger challenge tomorrow at the Hard Rock Casino in Tulsa.

March 30, 2016 at 5:51 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, Tulsa | Permalink * Comments

MLE Head to Head results March 30, 2016

March 30, 2016 at 7:53 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Statistics

Here are the head to head results for people with 2 or more MLE contests over the past 365 days:

1 Matt “Megatoad” Stonie (M St) 100% 107-0
2 Joey “Jaws” Chestnut (J Ch) 96.1% 198-8
3 Tim “Eater X” Janus (T Ja) 88% 22-3
4 Miki Sudo (M Su) 81.2% 157-36-1
5 Adrian “The Rabbit” Morgan (A Mo) 77.7% 86-24-2
6 Geoffrey Esper (G Es) 75.8% 48-15-1
7 Michelle “Cardboard Shell” Lesco (M Le) 74% 95-33-1
8 Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas (S Th) 68.2% 52-24-1
9 Yasir Salem (Y Sa) 63.5% 91-52-1
10 Juan “more bite” Rodriguez (J Ro) 58.9% 59-41-1

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Zoi's in Seymour, CT will hold a pizza eating contest for 3 person teams on April 19. According to Stephanie Wu, the purse will be $2500 ($1500 to winning trio). Teams must raise at least $300 to compete.

March 29, 2016 at 11:45 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Charity Events, New Haven, Prizes, Team Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

Reddit.com has a thread about the 10000+ daily calorie consumption claimed for The Flash.

March 29, 2016 at 2:00 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Calorie Challenges, Comics | Permalink * Comments

Collectively Free, an animal rights protest group that stormed the Nathan's finals stage between the women's & men's Nathan's finals last year, disrupted the Easter Mass service at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. The rationale for the disruption was the use of ham as a common Easter meal.

March 29, 2016 at 7:28 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Contest, New York City | Permalink * Comments (12)

Isaac Harding-Davis ate a 51 piece sushi platter weighing 1.8 kg in 2:24 at Niji Sushi Bar in Kingsford, Australia to win a trip to Japan.

March 28, 2016 at 8:44 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Prizes | Permalink * Comments

Stomp.com.sg has a report on Zermatt Neo facing a team of 4 in a race to see who could eat 4kg of chicken rice first. (video)

March 28, 2016 at 11:55 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Singapore, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments

Molly Schuyler posted a picture of her attempting two giant bowls of soup. Combined together, the bowls appear to have the volume of a yoga ball. She has yet to post the results of the challenge.

March 27, 2016 at 11:26 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler | Permalink * Comments (12)

The Long Island Hot Dog Festival will hold an eating contest in Selden, NY on July 9 awarding $630 ($500 to the winner).

March 27, 2016 at 11:23 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Long Island, Prizes, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

An EatFeats.com instagram has been started at http://instagram.com/eat_feats The posts will be whatever graphical content I produce along with some screen captures. The initial post is an eating contest report from a 1785 issue of the London Times.

March 27, 2016 at 2:02 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Websites | Permalink * Comments (1)

Sincerely Burger in Bushwick, Brooklyn has a five pound burger challenge available for $99. Only one challenge burger will be made per night.

March 26, 2016 at 8:59 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Burger Eating Challenges, New York City | Permalink * Comments

Stephanie Wu announces that she ate 6.25 corn dogs in 4 minutes to win the first prize of $200 at Denio's Market in Roseville, CA today.

March 26, 2016 at 5:20 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Contest Results, Sacramento, Stephanie Wu, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments (1)

Nela Zisser won today's hot dog eating contest at The Street Food Collective in Auckland, NZ.

March 26, 2016 at 10:38 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Nela Zisser | Permalink * Comments (9)

Darren Rovell of ESPN has posted a complaint about Burger King's use of the "Polish Punisher" in the ad promoting its hot dogs instead of an actual competitive eater. The "Polish Punisher" is played by actor Dave Maulbeck, and the ad has ran nationally at least 1,233 times according to ispot.tv.

March 26, 2016 at 12:14 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Business, Television | Permalink * Comments (3)

Randy Santel reports that Molly Schuyler was the first person to finish the Pointersaurus challenge at Pointer's Pizza in St. Louis by herself, a 10+ pound pizza intended for pairs. Her time was 16 minutes. Molly is the third all female group to finish the challenge; Stephanie Wu & Stephanie Torres and sisters Pam & Jennifer Cooney did it previously.

March 25, 2016 at 2:48 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Molly Schuyler, Pointersaurus, St. Louis | Permalink * Comments

Denio's in Roseville, CA will hold a corn dog eating contest on March 26 awarding $350 ($200 to the winner)

March 25, 2016 at 7:33 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Prizes, Sacramento, Unafilliated Contests | Permalink * Comments

NewcastleLive.com.au reports that Jamie Miller, a member of the Australian Battle of the Big Eaters team, finished the 2.5 kg burger challenge at the Edgeworth Bowling Club.

March 25, 2016 at 7:27 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Australia, Burger Eating Challenges | Permalink * Comments

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